Trucks seeking freight. Freight seeking trucks. Matching the two up used to mean considerable phone time with brokers or carriers and then even more time waiting for the right match to come along — ...

Load boards are one of the most misunderstood tools in trucking. Too many carriers treat them like their main source of business instead of what they really are—a tactical tool to bridge the gap, not ...

This summer, reader Manuel Chavez came across a 2011 story I wrote that mentioned the then-brand-new freight marketplace “No Broker Freight,” a project of Ohio-based broker Dave Fussi, who hoped to ...

Upstarts Uber Freight and Convoy continued to gain market share among freight-matching rivals, as more traditional load boards saw their market share ebb in the face of more heavily digitized ...

Truckload freight volumes tumbled in July from their highs in June—and the spot market continues its summer slump, DAT Freight & Analytics reported this week. “Demand for van and reefer services ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Somer G. Anderson is CPA, doctor of accounting, and an accounting and finance ...

If your entire week is shaped by whatever pops up on the load board that morning, you’re not running a plan—you’re reacting. That approach is what keeps carriers in the cycle of inconsistent weeks, ...